Spinning-frame



` my improvement adapted to it.

STATES PATENT OFFICE WANTON ROUSE, OF THOMPSON, CONNECTICUT.

v SPINNING-FRAME.

Specicaton of Letters Patent No. 5,416, dated January 25, 1848.

I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and accompanying drawings, letters, figures, and references thereof.

Of the said drawings, Figure l exhibits a top view, of a spinning frame, having front elevation of it. Fig. 3 is a vertical, central and transverse section of it, taken as if the spectator was looking toward the right hand end of the machine.

In the said figures, A denotes the main frame of the machine. B B, the drawing rollers. C the spindle on which the cop is formed.

D is the wave or bar, which sustains the ring E, which surrounds the spindle, and guides the thread upon it, and is made t-o rise and fall with the wave, in order to distribute theyarn upon the spindle, in the manner required to build the cop thereon.

F is the drum or cylinder, around which the bands pass, which drive the spindles, but one spindle being shown in the drawings-as the cops are built, on all the others respectively in the same, or a similar manner as on the one above designated. The rotary movements of t-he spindle and other parts which are common to ordinary spinning frames, are affected by any of the common and proper methods of accomplishing the same.

The wave D is sustained in position by upright rods G Gr, each of which has one end of a strap H attached to its lower end. The upper end of the said strap is secured or fastened to the upper part of the periphery of one of two pulleys I I which are Y aixed on a long horizontal shaft K as seen in Fig. 2. The said shaft K is sustained so as to revolve in suitable bearings, and has another pulley L placed upon it. A strap or band M is attached to the front part of the pulley L, and passes "underneath and partially around the pulley, and is carried upward and attached to the front end of a' lever N which moves up and down upon a fulcrum at O. The said lever N has a long angular projection P, extending down- Fig. 2 is a' ward from it, and resting upon the external surface of what may be termed the regulator Q. My improvement is found in the Inanner in which the said regulator is made and used. It is placed upon a long horizontal shaft R, which is put in revolution by a pulley, and band, or in any other proper manner. f

Fig. 4 is a vertical and longitudinal section of the said shaft, and regulator, and rack and pinion by which said regulator is moved or made to slide upon the shaft.

.The shaft has a spline or feather (a) extending from it and passing through t-he regulator for the purpose of insuring a rotary motion of the regulator with the shaft. A long toothed rack bar S is connected to the small end of the regulator by means of a collar plate T, through which the said end passes and turns. Shoulders or collars c, CZ, applied to the regulator in each side of the plate T, s'erve to confine the said plate thereto. y

The rack bar has teeth made upon its under side, t-he said teeth being made to engage with a pinion U lixed upon a transverse shaft V, which is to be rotated' by suitable machinery and in such manner as to cause the pinion to act upon the rack and gradually draw the regulator toward it (the pinion) while the operation of building the cop is being effected. The regulator is to be made of such a shape as when it is revolved and moved toward the pinion U, to impart to the lever N such vertical, ascending and descending movements, as will cause it to operate in the wave D (through the mechanism intervening between them, and hereinbefore described), and impart to it the necessary vertical movements, both upward and downward, to insure the building of the cop of the shape required and in the manner required viz. with a binding thread on it.

In order that it may be understood what is meant by the term binding thread as applied to a cop, I would remark that after the yarn or thread has been regularly wound upward on the spindle for a short distance, the wave is suddenly and quickly dropped or depressed so as to cause the yarn to wind downward, and to or near t-he point of commencement, and over that before wound on, and in a long helix.

The wave is next raised up with a slower motion and causes the yarn to gradually lay upward again, and over the binding thread before mentioned. This process is carried on throughout the cop until it is regularly built up in the form required. A cop, so made, may be removed from the spindle, and bent in almost any direction, without falling apart, as the up and down binding threads on it, prevent the horizontal coils from separating from one another. Such cops have heretofore been spun on mules but the bind' said regulator. Fig. 6 is another side eleva-- tion taken on a plane supposed to be at right angles to the plane on which the elevation in Fig. 5 is made. Fig. 7 is a transverse section taken 'in the line a b, Fig. 5.

end elevation taken on e f. Fig. 10 is a section taken on g1, h. Fig. Il exhibits ythe sections through g, 0;, Z2, c, el, and the end view e f projected on one plane, in their relative positions with regard to each other.

A regulator of the shape herein described and represented is calculated to make a cop having a cylindrical body and conical ends. If one of any other shape is desired the form of the regulator must be changed accordingly but it must still contain the addition which I consider as my invention-vizthat part which operates to depress the waves at the proper times and in the proper manner to lay the binding threads, it being caused by the remaining curved surface of the regulator to produce the proper wind of the yarn over the binding threads and in such degrees as may be requisite to gradually build up the cop.

\ The arrows on the sections denote the direction in which the regulator is moved or revolved transversely. By examination of the sections it will be perceived that they are eccentric, the position of the shaft R being shown on them. Consequently if the regulator is revolved, (supposing it cause no longitudinal motion) it will gradually raise the lever N (and the wave D) upward to the extent of the eccentricity of the section, and afterward gradually lower it, as well as the wave D to the position itl first held. This will cause a series of horizontal or nearly horizontal layers of thread on the spindle, and some distance upward thereon. A heart or eccentric cam such as is denoted by Fig. 12, would produce movements as Fig. 8 is a'. transverse section taken on c d. Fig. 9 1s an to a certain height, and then a corresponding vertical depression of it, to the point of its lowest position. Were a heart cam used and it was kept continually revolving the spindle would be carried by a cylindrical cop only without any binding thread or threads in it. Such a cop when removed from the spindle would easily fall apart.

My improvement consists'in forming the transverse section of the regulator with a sudden fall as seen at 7s, z', in Fig. 10 a, b, in Fig. 7 c m in Fig. 8 e n in Fig. 9 and at g Z m n e 0 a in Figs. 5 and 6. This sudden fall causesthe lever N when its angular point P passes beyond the point 1c (Fig. 10) of extreme eccentricity, to suddenly or quickly fall down the plane or curve c, i, and in a corresponding manner cause the wave to drop or be depressed and in so d0- ing to lay a binding thread over the yarn previously wound on the spindle. Were we to employ a simple eccentric of the transverse section denoted by Fig. 10 and give to it any given number of revolutions on its aXis--it would elevate and depress the Wave in such manner as to produce a cylindrical cop having binding threads-the length of the said cop being equal to the extent of rise or vertical movement of the wave.

Now as we desire to form cops of other shapes, and whole lengths shall be greater than the length of binding thread put into them, it becomes necessary that we should devise some means whereby the wave may not only be made to rise and fall far enough to lay the yarn and a binding thread over it, but that it may gradually rise higher up (having ,the same fall as it had at starting or a greater or less fall as circumstances may require) so as to build the co-p upon the spindle. The manner in which this is effected constitutes the second part of my invention. The regulator should be increased in length and in its transverse dimensions as represented in the drawings-the transverse section of it perpendicular to its axis at any point or part, of it being made ofsuch eccentricity and shape as will elevate the Wave and depress it, so as to put in the binding thread according as circumstances may require.

I am aware that there may be various modes adopted to produce what may be termed the additional raise of the wave, in order to build up the cop. The whole regulator (if made like Fig. l0) and lever over it and wave and parts connecting them, may be arranged in a frame, which frame may be regularly and properly elevated by suitable mechanism applied to it,l or instead of such a mode of accomplishing the same, the lever may be raised by a chain and pulley suitably placed and made to act upon it, in whichY case, it would be necessary to increase the size of the regulator, and make it move longitudinally, to the degree requisite to bring the drop (7c 1I Fig. 10) Which puts in the binding thread up to meet the lever.

I Wish it to be distinctly understood that I do not intend to limit myself to the precise form of regulator represented in the accompanying drawings, but to vary the sameas circumstances may require, I retain the principles of my improvement for making cops of any brous substances.

What I claim as my invention is- Governing the Winding of the thread in forming the cop s0 that it shall bind in its "descent by means of the regulator with the drop or fall (as represented-at z' Fig. 10.

WANToN Rousn.

Witnesses:

JONATHAN NICHOLS, FRANKLIN BAILEY. 

